Around 1 in 10 employees have an unpaid caring responsibility. Balancing this responsibility with work can be a significant challenge, and it is up to employers to support them. These authors investigate the effects of offering flexible working practices to working carers.

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Jill Miller, former Senior Policy Adviser, Diversity and Inclusion, CIPD

Jill's work focused on the areas of gender, age and neurodiversity and she led work on race inclusion, managing drug and alcohol misuse at work, and supporting employees through fertility treatment, pregnancy loss and still birth. 

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